What is up with Rory McIlroy?

[bscinstnct]

Rory gotta go back the hood in Holywood yo!

 

Train with the young hungry golfers on the beat up muni with burnt out brown patches on the greens.

 

Drink out the water fountain and eat a hunk of bread and cheese for lunch. Not grilled trout over basmati rice and coconut water. 
 

Stand freezing under the rain with muddy soaked shoes with just some sheep and a cow as fans looking on. Not in the warm Jupiter sun surrounded by coaches and trainers running analysis software on their iPads.

 

Gotta go back home where it all started. Eye of the Tiger yo!

 

 

[milesgiles]

On 11/22/2021 at 11:05 PM, tomuch23 said:

He had quite a bit of backspin on that shot when it hit the flag so I think it would have been a good shot at birdie. As far as the rest of the round it was because of that shot. He probably would have birdied a couple more had he got it done on #15 but the momentum was killed with the bogey. Happens to almost everyone when you get the s+it end of the stick. Just the mental part of the game we like so much. 

 

 

it happens to the also rans, it doesnt happen to Jack or Tiger. Why Rory hasnt won a major in forever encapsulated in that one bad break. Doesnt have the mental game.

[dropkicked]

41 minutes ago, bscinstnct said:

Rory gotta go back the hood in Holywood yo!

 

Train with the young hungry golfers on the beat up muni with burnt out brown patches on the greens.

 

Drink out the water fountain and eat a hunk of bread and cheese for lunch. Not grilled trout over basmati rice and coconut water. 
 

Stand freezing under the rain with muddy soaked shoes with just some sheep and a cow as fans looking on. Not in the warm Jupiter sun surrounded by coaches and trainers running analysis software on their iPads.

 

Gotta go back home where it all started. Eye of the Tiger yo!

 

 

I gotta agree with this. Rors forgot what it was like to be "hungry"... that's the difference.... 🐻🐯, never lost the taste for blood.. when they smelled it, they went for the jugular..

 

[MUNIGRIT]

No need for us to discuss it. As mentioned but buried in the thread Rory isn't as good at golf as he was. He said it himself so that is what is up. He is still filthy rich and making more money playing. That is the whole point of pro golf and with other things in life it is no surprise!

[mhudson111]

On 11/22/2021 at 9:15 AM, nitram said:

He doesn't have the passion he once had. He's grown up and has other responsibilities. I'm not saying he doesn't want to be the best, again. I am saying he spent his whole life getting to the top and spent almost every conscious moment on golf. Now, he's a grown asse d man who has a family and more responsibility than ever and doesn't have the time nor inclination to be that devoted again. As much as he says he wants to, he can't.

 

It's a much larger struggle to stay on top than to get there.

The dude just ripped his shirt apart in anger, and your first sentence is “He doesn’t have the passion…”????

 

Do you think shirt ripping at 18 is an everyday, normal, no big deal occurrence? 😬

[nitram]

1 hour ago, mhudson111 said:

The dude just ripped his shirt apart in anger, and your first sentence is “He doesn’t have the passion…”????

 

Do you think shirt ripping at 18 is an everyday, normal, no big deal occurrence? 😬

There's a huge difference in being pissed at yourself because you can't perform to expectations vs. living, breathing, and foregoing everything else in your life to get back to and stay on top.

 

Not saying he's wrong to have a life and congrats to him for doing what he's done by the age of 30 yoa. But he'll never regain his prior championship form (at least on a consistent basis) until he re-prioritizes his time and efforts like he did a decade or so ago.

Edited November 26, 2021 by nitram

[Zitlow]

Rory has the sads because he's lost perspective. 

[gsrjc]

If Rory got into an accident and heaven forbid it doesn’t happen but I’m trying to do an analogy to Tiger. Do we think he would have the same desire and passion as Tiger to get back to playing?  I do not think so. 

[kylesilk]

1 hour ago, gsrjc said:

If Rory got into an accident and heaven forbid it doesn’t happen but I’m trying to do an analogy to Tiger. Do we think he would have the same desire and passion as Tiger to get back to playing?  I do not think so. 

This is the area where I think Jordan Spieth is still the best of today's crop.  He may not be back there yet, but he's got the killer mentality.  He also has some magic in his game.

[gsrjc]

7 minutes ago, kylesilk said:

This is the area where I think Jordan Spieth is still the best of today's crop.  He may not be back there yet, but he's got the killer mentality.  He also has some magic in his game.

I would agree with you. 

[PowerPlayer]

On 11/22/2021 at 12:24 PM, MMB1500 said:

 

I've said all along he needs to find a way to care less about the outcome. He's at his best when he doesn't gaf. 

 

Unfortunately we're well past that now. He tries all sorts of ways to talk himself into a new frame of mind, but it never works. He's wasted the best years of his career because of his mental fragility and now young guns like Morikawa and Koepka are in his head.

You do know that Rory is exactly 1 year older than Koepka, right? 

[pingbling23]

solid first round for rory.  looks like hes been hard in the gym again, he looks much more muscular then last year.

[cav5]

his touch is crazy good now. i think he's playing a 58* lob and can hit those short shots with so much speed

[MMB1500]

15 hours ago, PowerPlayer said:

You do know that Rory is exactly 1 year older than Koepka, right? 

 

How is Koepka's age relevant to a discussion about McIlroy? 

[gsrjc]

12 hours ago, cav5 said:

his touch is crazy good now. i think he's playing a 58* lob and can hit those short shots with so much speed

He flew the green on 18 today with a SW. Still not good with wedges. 

[PowerPlayer]

2 hours ago, MMB1500 said:

 

How is Koepka's age relevant to a discussion about McIlroy? 

Really?

 

18 hours ago, PowerPlayer said:

and now young guns like Morikawa and Koepka are in his head.

Please let me know if your own quote re: Koepka's age vis a vis McIlroy provides enough context. 🙄

[MMB1500]

10 hours ago, PowerPlayer said:

Really?

 

Please let me know if your own quote re: Koepka's age vis a vis McIlroy provides enough context. 🙄

 

Ha ha, fair enough. Referring to Brooks as a young gun vis-à-vis McIlroy was inaccurate. I stand corrected.

Edited December 4, 2021 by MMB1500

[cav5]

12 hours ago, gsrjc said:

He flew the green on 18 today with a SW. Still not good with wedges. 

I didn’t see but sounds about right lol.  Seems to be really solid when around the green. Saw he went to the high bounce MG3s. 

[ppal]

Rory looks to be on an upward trend,

thinking 2022 may be the year he gets his green jacket

[ppal]

wonder what grind on his wedges ?

[tacklingdummy]

RM has been sporadic. Playing some great then a few not so great rounds. Golf is tough even for the pros. They are not robots. 

[Draw Driver]

Not good. Still like the guy. Has to be a tough night. 

[kasting333]

I can’t remember a player being hyped as much as Rory was for this masters and then be this disappointing 

[Chunkitgood]

Couldn’t hit a draw with the driver he is paid to play with, changed his swing to a fade, doesn’t work at Augusta?

[rukahs]

Needs to go free agent. Play the clubs he feels most comfortable with. Swing freely. He’s overthinking it all.

[Golfnutgalen]

8 minutes ago, rukahs said:

Needs to go free agent. Play the clubs he feels most comfortable with. Swing freely. He’s overthinking it all.

 

He's definitely overthinking it, from the vokey wedge change to the new putter and then the new driver.

[capking]

3 hours ago, rukahs said:

Needs to go free agent. Play the clubs he feels most comfortable with. Swing freely. He’s overthinking it all.

Rahm had a full bag and ball change and got better… not an excuse for the 2nd* beat golfer in the world

[MyShortGameSucks]

4 hours ago, kasting333 said:

I can’t remember a player being hyped as much as Rory was for this masters and then be this disappointing 

100% agreed.  I don't think he could have been any more ready for this.  Putting looking good.  Working with Rotella.  Seemed confident in his new driver setup.  This is right up there with The Open at Royal Portrush where he crapped the bed in the first round.  I am a massive Rory fan and always laughed at the naysayers who said he'll never win another major...but to be honest I am reluctantly coming around to that POV.  
 

I'm not even sure it's all mental.  For all the hoopla about him being "golf's greatest driver" he sure missed a lot of fairways on Thursday.  For every astonishing, jaw-dropping drive like the 18th at Austin a few weeks back there are performances like this year at Augusta and the Players where he could barely hit a fairway with a 3 wood.  
 

Just throwing it out there for debate and I'll probably get flamed but...is his swing with it's full release just a little too timing dependent for the pressure cooker of majors?  Obviously when he is on it's a thing of beauty and he is unbeatable but add in the mounting expectations and the more difficult conditions of majors and he's struggling.  Again I could be totally wrong here but to me it just seems players like Scottie, Rahm, Koepka who are more fade based players seem to be better setup for the grind of majors.

[ashortgame]

Rory went from nice guy to being a bully.

[FriedEgg]

29 minutes ago, ashortgame said:

Rory went from nice guy to being a bully.

 

a Masters win by a player from that "other" tour would make his week complete